Here are the mods I recommend. These are all compatible with the latest versions of SMAPI and Stardew Valley on Linux/Mac/Windows. See the player's guide to using mods if you're interested.

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Quality of life

I think the best mods are those which improve the game while maintaining its balance, lore, and style.

• Better Sprinklers
  Customise the sprinkler radius, with a proportional change to their cost. If you're willing to mine all the ores you'll need, that makes the basic sprinklers useful early in the game and lets you do more than just watering crops every day.

• Billboard Anywhere
  View the calendar and daily quest anywhere. See upcoming birthdays and festivals without needing to walk to the nearest calendar.

• Chests Anywhere
  Access, label, and categorise your chests from anywhere (with optional balanced mode). Makes inventory management less of a chore — you can have multiple organised chests and sort things away without walking around trying to find which chest is which.

• Data Layers
  Toggle an overlay to see live bee house / Junimo hut / scarecrow / sprinkler coverage, hidden paths and warp points, and more. Very useful when laying out your crops.

• Fast Animations
  Makes the routine player animations (breaking geodes, eating, drinking, etc) almost instant.

• Horse Whistle
  You'll often find you left your horse across town, or the horse can't pass through a narrow path. This mod eliminates horse location management as a game mechanic; just whistle and he'll come running teleport to you.

• Lookup Anything
  Point at almost anything, and press a button to see information about it. This helps you decide whether an item is worth keeping (e.g. it shows what bundles/recipes/achievements you still need it for), plan your crops (e.g. it tells you when a crop will be ready), manage trees (e.g. it tells you whether something is blocking their growth), see what gifts an NPC likes, etc.
  ⚠ Looking up items or NPCs shows all gift tastes. Look up things responsibly if you want to avoid spoilers.

• Loved Labels
  Point at a farm animal and it'll show whether you've pet them today, without needing to check them manually.

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• No Soil Decay Redux
  Ensures that plots you till stay tilled. This lets you till the area you'll be planting ahead of time to plan your crop layout, without worrying that your neat layout will decay.

• NPC Map Locations
  NPCs move around a lot, and it can be frustrating to find them when you need to talk to them. This mod shows their locations on your map.

• Pony Weight Loss Program
  Lets the horse pass anywhere you can. This eliminates a common annoyance where the horse can't pass through narrow paths.

• Stone Bridge over Pond
  Adds a bridge across the pond at the bottom of the standard farm, so you can have a straight path between the top and bottom exits.

• Rented Tools
  While Clint is upgrading one of your tools, he'll let you rent an old one he has until yours is ready.

• Self Service
  When you enter a shop and the shopkeeper isn't behind the counter, you can still buy from them.

• Skip Intro
  Skips the starting splash screens and (optionally) the title screen. It's only a few seconds each time, but you won't be able to go back once you're used to this mod.

• Tillable Ground
  Lets you plant crops (and grass) on the grassy portions of the farm map.

• Toddlers Like Parents
  Your children will look a bit like your spouse (instead of the default generic children). You can optionally customize the clothing they wear too.

• Tool Upgrade Delivery Service
  After you ask Clint to upgrade a tool, he'll send it back in the mail when it's done. (You can still go pick it up yourself if you want.)

Late game

These mods are best used later in the game, once you've already played for a while with the vanilla mechanics.

• Automate
  When you're tired of manually working each machine, this opens a whole new gameplay mechanic. Place a chest next to a machine (like a furnace or crystalarium), and the machine will pull raw items from the chest and push processed items into it. Connect multiple machines with a chest to create factories.

• Deep Woods
  Adds an explorable, procedurally-generated forest area to the game with many secrets and resources.

• Pelican Fiber
  Instantly access all of the game shops through their website at the press of a button.

• Tractor Mod
  Buy a tractor from Robin to make managing large farms much easier. The tractor lets you quickly clear debris, plant/fertilise/water/harvest crops, etc.

Content Patcher

These mods visually tweak the game using Content Patcher.

• Fixed Mouse House
  Give the hat mouse a less broken-down house.

• Natural Clock
  Change the Gold Clock to fit in better the game style and look a bit less ostentatious.

• Rustic Traveling Cart
  Change the traveling cart to better fit the game style and look a bit less silly.

For mod testing

These mods are useful for mod developers.

• CJB Cheats Menu
  Adds many useful utilities like teleporting, changing the time, building instantly, making machines finish instantly, etc.

• CJB Item Spawner
  Lets you instantly spawn any item in the game.

• Debug Mode
  Press a button to show debug info like the tile coordinate under the cursor, and enable the game's debug features like teleporting.

• Fast Travel
  Fast travel to any named location on the map by clicking it. Immensely useful when testing to avoid needing to walk everywhere.

• Lookup Anything
  Enable ShowDataMiningFields and EnableTileLookups in its config.json, point at almost anything in the game, and press F1 to see all the hidden data about it.

• Noclip Mode
  Enable noclip at the press of a button, letting you walk through anything (even map boundaries). Useful to quickly accessing places you haven't unlocked for testing, or taking shortcuts to where you need to go.

More mods

Want more suggestions? Take a look at the most endorsed mods on Nexus. (You can check mods.smapi.io to know whether a SMAPI mod is compatible with the latest versions.)

• Getting Started

Do you want to play Stardew Valley with mods? This guide is for you!

• 2Getting started
• 4Frequent questions

Intro

A 'mod' is just a package of files which changes Stardew Valley in some way. Mods can add features (like showing NPCs on the map), change game mechanics (like making fences decay more slowly), make cosmetic changes (like making your house look like a hobbit home), and more.

Using mods is easy! You just need to..

1. Install SMAPI. That's the mod loader for Stardew Valley — it launches the game with mod support and lets mods interact directly with the game code. It's safely installed alongside your normal game, and you can uninstall it anytime.
2. Unzip mods into your Mods folder.

See frequent questions below, or keep reading to get started!

Getting started

Install SMAPI

First you'll need to install the mod loader, SMAPI. Click the right link for more info:

Find mods

Next you can download the mods you want. Some suggestions:

• most popular mods on Nexus;
• recommendations for a first playthrough;
• search for mods here:

  site	description
  Nexus Mods	Most mods are released here. (Registering an account is free, just don't choose a package when you register.)
  ModDrop	Many mods are released here. You can install mods quickly through their Windows-only client (which also handles auto-updates), or download mods directly from the website without registration needed.
  Chucklefish mods	Some older mods are released here, though most are also on ModDrop or Nexus.
  Stardew Valley forums	Some older mods are posted directly in the forums. Some hidden gems are only here, but finding them can be a challenge.

Before you download a mod..

• Does it work with the latest version of the game? (For SMAPI mods, see the mod compatibility list; SMAPI will also automatically disable most incompatible SMAPI mods. You're on your own for XNB mods; try checking the mod description or comments for those.)
• Don't download from stardewvalleymods.net. (Mods here are usually outdated, since the site republishes mods without permission for ad revenue.)

Find your game folder

Next you'll need to open your game folder (the one containing Stardew Valley's .exe file). Here's where to find it by default:

Not there? Here are some other ways to find it:

Install mods

To install a mod, just unzip it into the Mods folder in your game folder. Make sure each mod has its own subfolder, without trailing numbers. For example, if you have a PineapplesEverywhere mod, you should have a file structure like this:

Tips:

• If you have a lot of mods, you can optionally organise them into subfolders. SMAPI will automatically search inside each folder until it finds one with files.
• To disable a folder, just add a dot in front of the folder name (like .disabled mods). Windows won't let you do that by default, but just put a dot at the end too and it'll let you (like .disabled mods.).
• Download mods into a folder other than Mods, unzip them there, and then move their folder(s) into Mods. That helps prevent errors related to extra files.
• If you have a folder that looks like PineapplesEverywhere-1234567890, check inside it for the actual mod folder. Folders named like this often have more folders and possibly readme files inside them.

Configure mods

Some mods have a config.json file in their mod folder. It might be created the first time you launch the game with that mod. This file lets you customise the mod settings.

To edit the config.json file, just open it in a text editor. Make sure the game isn't running when you edit it, or your changes might not take effect. See a basic guide to JSON; basically make sure your values are surrounded by quotes (like 'value'). You can use this JSON validator to make sure the format is correct.

Update mods

To update a mod, just replace its files with the new versions (making sure to keep generated files like config.json). The Moddrop mod manager will auto-update any mods that are hosted on its service and that you are subscribed to.

More detailed steps:

1. Download the new mod version.
2. Check the mod page for any special update instructions.
3. Unzip it somewhere else (not in your Mods folder).
4. Open the mod's old and new folders, so the manifest.json is visible in both.
5. Copy all the files/subfolders from the new folder into the old folder.

Remove mods

Delete a mod from the Mods folder to uninstall it. Make sure to check the mod page in case it mentions any special uninstall instructions.

XNB mods

XNB mods replace files in your game's Content folder with custom versions. If a mod has some .xnb files and no manifest.json, it's an XNB mod. This is an older type of mod that's no longer recommended, but see Modding:Using XNB mods if you're still interested.

Frequent questions

Which platforms allow mods?

Mod support for each platform:

Almost all mods will work on any supported platform, since SMAPI rewrites them for compatibility.

Can mods corrupt my save?

Yes, but it's extremely rare. Only a few mods affect your save file at all. If you avoid those, mods are very unlikely to corrupt your save file. In most cases, you can fix save corruption by undoing the last save.

If you're worried, just back up your save files occasionally. That's strongly recommended even if you don't use mods, since save corruption is almost always caused by the game itself. SMAPI also creates a daily backup of your saves automatically; you can retrieve those from the Mods/SaveBackup folder.

Can I stop using mods later?

Yep. With a few exceptions (see previous question), mods don't directly affect your save file so you can stop using them anytime.

Do mods disable Steam achievements?

Steam achievements work fine, as long as you launch SMAPI through Steam. Make sure you follow the install instructions to configure Steam on Windows (no Steam changes needed on Linux or Mac). If the Steam overlay works, the achievements should work too.

Do mods work in multiplayer?

Yep, but it depends on the mod. Usually each player can have their own mods, and you can mix modded and vanilla players. Some mods don't work (or work poorly) in multiplayer, or affect other players too. Try checking the mod description for details about multiplayer (often under a 'compatibility' header).

Here are some approximate rules for mods that don't specify:

What is SMAPI?

SMAPI is the mod loader for Stardew Valley. It works fine with GOG and Steam achievements, it's compatible with Linux/Mac/Windows and (unofficially) Android, you can uninstall it anytime, and there's a friendly community if you need help. Nacon revolution pro controller software for mac. SMAPI is required for most types of Stardew Valley mod.

SMAPI does a lot for you. For example, it will..

1. Load mods into the game and provide APIs they can use. Many types of mod aren't possible without SMAPI.
2. Rewrite mods for crossplatform compatibility, so you can use almost any mod on any platform.
3. Intercept errors. If a mod crashes or causes an error, SMAPI will intercept the error, show the error details in the console window, and in most cases automatically recover the game.
4. Provide update checks. SMAPI automatically alerts you when a new version of a mod is available.
5. Provide compatibility checks. SMAPI automatically detects when a mod is incompatible and disables it before it causes problems.

Where are my..

• Game folder: see Getting Started#Find your game folder.
• SMAPI log: see Troubleshooting#Find your SMAPI log.
• Save files: see Saves.

Can I have different mod groups?

Yep, SMAPI has built-in support for different mod groups. The instructions may seem complex, but it's easy once you get the hang of it:

On Windows only, the ModDrop mod manager also supports up to three 'mod loadouts' which you can switch between.